Mount Falconer
| Mount Falconer | ||
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| height | 810 m | |
| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 77 ° 35 ′ 0 ″ S , 163 ° 6 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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Mount Falconer is a 810 m high mountain in Victoria Land, East Antarctica . He excels in the north wall of Taylor Valley to Lake Fryxell between Mount McLennan in the Asgard Range and the Commonwealth Glacier .
The team led by the Australian geologist Thomas Griffith Taylor (1880-1963) on the Terra Nova Expedition (1910-1913) led by the British polar explorer Robert Falcon Scott made the name. It is named after Robert Alexander Falconer (1867–1943), at that time President of the University of Toronto .
Web links
- Mount Falconer in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mount Falconer on geographic.org (English)